Movies that a better than the book We hear it a lot, don’t we? The book was better than the movie. This sentiment has come up countless times in my life, especially since my dad was a hardcore reader. He wasn’t shy about reminding me, over and over, how much superior the book was to […]
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There have been plenty of articles, videos, and other opinion pieces debating which version of Fullmetal Alchemist is better. There are good reasons to like both, but I think most people would agree that Brotherhood is the best. This makes sense, since Brotherhood sticks to a more coherent storyline, features better animation and action scenes,
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This post is a companion piece to my former post on the series regarding Malazan Book of the Fallen. That post is about some of the misconceptions regarding the series along with my own thoughts on the reading experience. This post is about some helpful tips to get through the series. 1 Don’t expect to
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Intro I recently finished the fantastic epic fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I found the series to be profoundly brilliant with many heavy philosophical themes to chew on. I found myself pondering the many topics of the series long after finishing. The series has everything an epic fantasy needs, epic
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The Family Man (2000) The Family Man (2000) is about a wealthy stockbroker named Jack (Nicholas Cage) who 13 years ago decided to go for a career with lots of money instead of his high school sweetheart Kate. He lives his perfect life with casual sexual conquests, a Ferrari, and the other materialistic stuff the
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We all know the inevitable blow to your self-confidence when your New Year’s resolution inevitably fails. Still, it doesn’t have to be this way. Here are 5 mistakes most people, including myself, make when it comes to making New Year resolutions stick. These tips can also be helpful in overall goal setting and are thus
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One Life is a movie directed by James Hawes. The film is about Nicholas Winton, a man who saved over 600 children from nazi occupied Yugoslavia. The movie follows Winton as an old man played by Anthony Hopkins as he tries to get rid of all the artifacts he still possesses from his past. Nicholas
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Makoto Shinkai is a hack director! By that, I do not mean he is bad in all aspects, on the contrary, he is obviously very good at art direction. If nothing else his movies always look pretty. His films are very pretty with little to no substance if anything. So many of Shinkai´s shortcomings would
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What does it mean to say something is boring? What does it mean to say a movie is boring? When is a movie boring? Is something being boring a description of the work itself or merely a label that reflects more on the person who perceives the boring thing? Today I want to talk a bit
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The holocaust is a challenging subject matter. The main focus point is one of the most evil events in human history. Stories about the holocaust are not easy to digest or watch. A good movie about this event can reframe your mind and priorities to a great extent. We all have a form of collective
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